Today felt like the longest day of my life.
I had to rush down to head office for my staff pass photo. (I'm getting my staff pass!) Then went for breakfast because the others were late as usual. Then took a cab down to MOS and we arrived there at 11am, the time we were supposed to get there. But P and W werent around yet, so the majority that was there started smoking (non-stop) and talking away.
My phone was being a pain in the ass because it kept rejecting my outgoing smses and calls. It made me quite annoyed.
We all lounged around for like two hours. Even Apai and Muz had time to sleep on the sofas in Pure. The rest of us just sat around.
Ace: "Eh! How to walk ah?!"
Me: "Use your legs lah."
Then we got orders to go for lunch and come back at 2pm to start our session. The whole lot of us were all waiting for our Supervisor to come in. Pat was still doing her own stuff as usual, even though she hasnt memorised her housepour spirits and beers yet. She kept putting it off with a wave of her hand, saying that she needed her mind to be relaxed, by reading the newspaper.
LIKE THAT HELPS YA.
Reyton tried pushing her to memorise her housepours, but she kept avoiding his questions. So being the gentleman that he is, he didnt want to force her to memorise her housepours, even though opening's tmr.
So P came in like the wind, and the first thing he did was to yell at one of the bartenders for always being perpetually late. Then he shot a question at Pat, asking her what was the name of our housepour gin. She couldnt answer and she looked at all the other severs (including me) for help. Obviously we werent supposed to help her, and we didnt.
Privately, i think that she is sucha loser. She doesnt even want to make an effort to even try and memorise the housepours and she expects us to tell her the answer. Senior server my foot.
So she got shot another question by P, asking her to name to lagers that we serve. She couldnt answer again. The look on her face told me everything i needed to know. She didnt even bother to look at the beer section at all. Thus it explains her clueless look.
She kept getting shouted at and she couldnt handle the memorising at all. Rey got shouted at also, because she couldnt remember her housepours. But Rey took it all in and didnt say a word to her.
P came along and asked all floor staff whether it was fair for all of us if Pat didnt make an effort to do her part. In our minds, all of us were thinking that it was unfair, but we all chose not to say anything because she started crying. For what she started crying for, i dun know. But all i know is that crying doesnt help at all.
W called her out and talked to her while P talked to us. We all agreed that it was unfair to us, but sometimes, we do meet people who are slower at memorising things and we cant help it. P asked us why we didnt say anything before W called her out. All of us voiced out our opinions and agreed that we didnt say anything because she was crying already.
Seriously, i dun know how to help her at all. I tell her Agave plant so many times and she still cannot get it. Everyone tried helping her in his way and still it doesnt work. I hope she does something about this before opening tmr. If not, we cannot save her from getting even more scoldings.
Once that was over, we all went downstairs to do set up. You try moving/cutting/ripping 49 barstool and 30 low table boxes and bubblewrap all in 15mins and you tell me how does it feel like. I swear i wanted to die. I was sweating like a waterfall. Even Santos had something to say about it.
We were all sent for dinner at 640pm and all of us were famished. Rey told us about the birthday treat that his ex-workplace would give if its your birthday. Ace jumped in and suggested that we suggest to P about it, so that we could get that too. And to add on that his birthday was coming soon, in december. All of us disagreed at once just because Ace would be the first one to get it. Then Specs said that we should start from January. You should have seen Ace's face. He was so sad because if it came to pass, he would have to wait one whole year again for his birthday.
All of us laughed after seeing his expression. He's just so funny see.
Heres an example.
Ace: "You got bike what, dun need to say."
Santos: "Yarh, but i live nearby only. Just over the bridge."
Ace: *bewildered expression* "Then why you take bike? Take BICYCLE LAH. Save petrol."
All of us laughed like mad at what Ace said.
Me: "Eh, but its his own bike what, let him bike here even though its so near lah."
My colleagues are all so funny!
And i'm the youngest, YET AGAIN. RAHHHHHH.